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🇲🇽 Mexico /Elections & Politics

Petro touts meeting with Sheinbaum, shares photo outside Mexico’s National Palace

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Former Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he met Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico.
  • Petro posted a photograph outside the National Palace, after Sheinbaum had earlier said no meeting had been requested or scheduled.
  • He also met with Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director general of Mexico’s Economic Culture Fund.

Gustavo Petro presented a photograph outside Mexico’s National Palace as evidence of a meeting he said he had just held with President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“ I have just come out of speaking with the president of the United Mexican States, Claudia Sheinbaum,” the former Colombian leader wrote on social media during his visit to Mexico.

I have just come out of speaking with the president of the United Mexican States, Claudia Sheinbaum.

— Gustavo PetroPetro announced the meeting in a social media post accompanying a photograph outside Mexico’s National Palace.

The meeting came after Sheinbaum had said she did not expect to meet Petro. At her August 26 morning news conference, she told reporters that Petro had not requested a meeting at that point, while welcoming him to Mexico.

Petro also met Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director general of Mexico’s Economic Culture Fund, during his visit.

I have no meeting planned, they have not requested a meeting, but welcome.

— Claudia SheinbaumSheinbaum made the remark at her August 26 morning news conference before Petro said they had met.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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